Empowering women

In many of the regions and communities we work with, families split the daily responsibilities. Traditionally, it is the men who earn the family’s income through going to work, whilst the women will collect water, stay at home, cook and look after the children.

However, sand dams and subsequent climate-smart agriculture empower women, as they become decision makers and leaders in their communities, whilst children (and parents alike) have improved nutrition at school, work and home thanks to the safe water.

The local source of water also vastly reduces the amount of time needed to collect water, giving more time and opportunity for women to develop their own income, and for their children to go to school.

Supporting people in drylands to build sand dams, which provide a local supply of water, means that less children die each year from curable diarrhoea and women no longer have to bare this burden. Can you help by making a donation that will stop the suffering of communities living in drylands?

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